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Played by a larger-than-life Emory Cohen - who brings Derek Cianfrance-levels of cartoonish affectation to a movie that desperately needs a less obvious villain - Denny picks a fight with Antonio, and uses it as an excuse to arrange for his deportation. His virulently racist, virulently insecure, virulently everything beat partner Denny won’t let that happen. Jessie is worried that having a hapa sibling around the house will delegitimize her bone-deep father-daughter bond with Antonio, while Ace sees the pregnancy as the final nail in the coffin of the family that he never fought to keep. In a touch that proves typical of a film that gilds the fleur-de-lis every chance it gets, Antonio is so personally at peace with his American identity that his best friend Merk is an ICE agent (the hulking yet winsome Toby Vitrano, who Chon discovered behind the counter of a Biloxi vitamin store).Īlas, Kathy’s ex (Mark O’Brien as Ace) is law enforcement as well, and - in his own messed up way - he shares his estranged daughter’s concerns over how the new baby might shake things up. His beautiful, flinty Southern bride Kathy (Alicia Vikander, bringing as much integrity as possible to a suffering wife part) is pregnant with their first child together, and while he’ll have to get a second job to help pay for their growing family, at least he’s graduated from his old gig of stealing motorcycles. The question is all the more disorienting for Antonio because he has exactly one waterlogged memory from his time in Korea and zero other Asian people in his life that most white strangers refuse to accept his Americanness seems to produce an almost subliminal dysphoria in his mind.īut Antonio doesn’t seem to dwell on such things. We meet Antonio in a static long-take that instantly conveys a lifetime of fragmented self-identity, as he sits for another futile job interview with his precocious white step-daughter Jessie (Sydney Kowalske) at his side and swallows the familiar indignity of being asked about where he’s really from (the soft intimacy of Ante Cheng and Matthew Chuang’s Super 16mm cinematography lends a personal sting to an encounter that countless people from Asian diasporas have experienced in this country regardless of where they were born). 'The White Lotus': Everything You Need to Know About the HBO SeriesĤ1 Great Films That Failed at the Box Office
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New Movies: Release Calendar for March 18, Plus Where to Watch the Latest Films It’s a legal quirk so illogical that it’s never even occurred to New Orleans tattoo artist Antonio LeBlanc (Chon, directing himself in a tender performance that effectively clashes the Asianness of his appearance with the gumbo-thick drawl of an accent that’s seldom attached to it on screen), but also one so devastating that it soon threatens to destroy his entire family - or at least the parts of it that he chose for himself after being neglected and worse by the white foster couple who spirited him away from Korea when he was only three years old.Ĭannes Leadership Changes Could Determine the Future of the World's Greatest Film Festival (Column)
The crux of the film’s story hinges on the immigration status of this country’s foreign-born adoptees a bill was passed in the year 2000 that granted them American citizenship, but that long-overdue change didn’t retroactively apply to anyone who was brought to this country before that.
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